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HN doesn't have any integrity about voting in general. Look at the "about" text of https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pwdisswordfishc https://news.ycombinator
by Arnavion 3y ago
HN doesn't have any integrity about voting in general. Look at the "about" text of https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pwdisswordfishc https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pwdisswordfishc for example, and then look at the username.
There is a whole family of pwdisswordfish* accounts btw. The "b" account's "about" text even has a holier-than-thou attitude about it.
- tgv 3y agoThat looks like a person, or a pretty good HNGPT. It's not your average spam. (Unless most comments have been deleted.)
- Arnavion 3y agoWhen I said "Look at the username", I meant that. You're not going to get anything by analyzing the posting style of a shared account.
- fragmede 3y agoyou're assuming votes from those accounts are being included in vote counts
- gus_massa 3y agoIf you go to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest , from time to time there apears stories with 50 upvotes in 30 minutes, and perhaps a few sockpuppets/shills comments. If you do the math, they should be in the front page, but misteriously they aren't. So the conclussion is that HN has a secret feature that detect (some of) the tricks. I think I read some coment from pg or dang about voting rings, but it was a long time ago, but it has no details. The details are part of the secret sause. Also people flag strange threads, so the detection is not only automatic. If you notice something strange, you can send an email to dang: hn@ycombinator.com